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"The Story of Mineral Oil". Scottish Oils Agency, c.1919. (2.61MB) |
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"A Real Scottish Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd., c.1925. (0.77MB) |
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"The Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex Ltd., c.1938 (1.51MB) |
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd, 1948 (2.73MB) |
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"Oakbank Oils". Oakbank Oil Company Ltd., c.1913. BP Archive 183524 (1.78MB) |
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"The Pumpherston Oil Company, Glasgow" Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd. c. 1910. LVSAV 2208.012.002 (1.56MB) |
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd. 1938. (1.88MB) LVSAV 2009.015 |
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Reprint from "Wonders of World Engineering". Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex Ltd. (0.76MB) c.1933 |
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd. 1951 (1.6MB) LVSAV 2009.065 |
Other Industry Publications
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"Report of a Court of Investigation Concerning the Wages Position in the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". March 1926. LVSAV2010.016 (5 MB) |
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Other Publications Available On Line
Many contemporary reference works that describe or relate to the Scottish shale oil industry are already available as downloadable digital documents through the Internet Archive project, based in San Francisco.
- Joint Report on the Bituminous, or Oil Shales of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; also, On the oil-shale industry of Scotland. Ells, R. W. (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/jointreportonbit00ellsiala
- The Oil-shales of the Lothians. Cadell, H. M., Grant Wilson, J. S., Caldwell, W., Stewart [sic], D. R. (First Edition 1906) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004686329
- The Oil-shales of the Lothians. Carruthers, R. G., Caldwell, W., Steuart, D. R. (Second Edition 1912) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004669119
- Short papers from the Cooperative Oil-Shale Laboratory. Gavin, Martin J., Sharp, Leslie J. (1921) http://www.archive.org/details/shortpapersfromc00gavirich
- A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological Occurrence of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the physical and chemical properties, production and refining of petroleum and ozokerite ... together with a description of the shale oil and allied industries, and a full bibliography, Redwood, Boverton, Sir (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/petroleumtreatis00redwuoft Petroleum
- The Oil Shale Industry. Alderson, Victor Clifton (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004123661
- The Technical Examination of Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Products and Natural Gas, including also the procedures employed in the evaluation of oil-shale and the laboratory methods in use in the control of the operation of benzol-recovery plants. Hamor, William Allen, Padget, Fred Warde. (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924054705045